The Sun. — London, England, 1818-12-29 00:00:00

LONDON JOUR NA LS. }TONI THE NIORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY [Morning Chronicle.] Letters..were yesterday received front Vera Cruz, dated the Sth October, bat their contents are of no interest. It appears that the Spanish licenses, ►►eeociated in London some time ago, have turn ed out extremely ill, and wilt in all probability lead to lawsuits. A considerable quantity of re volwionary element exists in the provinces of Aie\.co, hut with them ali , intercourse is cut off,. inconsequence of the Royalists holding the only pie t on the coast, Vera Cruz. This appears to be the last section thet•will gain its independence; hut according to the forward state of the rest, that period cannot be far distant. It is a curious circumstance that the American Papers received yesterday should also mention the arrival of Lord Cochrane at Margarita. It is sup- posed that the vague rumour, which we yesterwly contradicted in pointed terms, originated in the arrival of the brig Imogene at Margarita, having on board a naval officer, who ha 3 distinguiShed himself in the service of Buenos Ayres, and who no doubt would merit the confidence of Admiral Brion ; but our own letters from Margarita, of the Bth October, do not mention that any extensive command bad been given'to [Morning Herald.] Lord Castlereagh was so much indisposed with tie gout yesterday, that it was necessary to lift him in and out of his bed; indeed he was scat cely able to move at all without assistance. His Lord. shit's physician, Dr. Bankhead, is at present at Brighton, acrd a messenger was sent off to him last night to request his immediate attendance.— The piolonged and very boisterous passage from Calais has also had considerable influence on his Lurdship's health. After the first five or six hours of the gale, he was too much affected by she motion of the vessel to remain longer on deck in the carriage with his Lady, and he retired to the cabin, which lie did not leave afterwards till their landing at Dover. Not so her Ladyship, however ; she (-mild not be prevailed upon to go below, but resolutely kept her seat on deck, though the billows repeatedly broke over the top of her carriage. His Lordship intended leaving town on Friday morning last for North Cray, but was untortonately seized with the gout on Thurs day. Lady Castlereagh, we are happy to state, is quite recovered from her late indisposition.— Lord Castlereagh felt much for the accident which happened to Mr. Linder, ; the mate of the packet in which his Lordship sailed from Calais, and immediately on landing sent hint tett guineas, tie siring, at the same time, that every possible care might be taken of him. •• [Morning Post.) We regret excee , :ingly to find that the most ruinous delusion continues to be successfully prac tised on the minds of some of our soldiery, whom the artful agents of the South American Patriots succeed iu seducing, not only from their country ► but fruit) their allegiance and their duty. The following- fresh case came before the Lord Mayor yesterday at the Mansion House : " Captain lientinck, of the Coldstream Reg,i 'vent ot Guards, stated, that a short time since a few individuals of the Guards had deserted the re giment, and after a diligent search being made fur them, it was pretty clearly ascertained that they had joined some of the recruiting parties which had recently sailed from the river to rein force the armed Patriots in South America. Two other privates ot the corps had also just absconded :rout the barracks, and tram the best information he could obtain, he concluded they were now 00 board the Duncan, or some other vessel in the Thames, waiting an opportunity to sail with other hired and volunteer forces to the same des tination. Ile begged to know what were the pro per steps to be taken to prevent the men from thus deserting the regiment and the country. 'The Lord Mayor regretted that Englishmen of any description) should he found, who would wildly 8y " the best country on earth," and ha znrol their dearest inturests and lives in a specula tion which, he feared, would prove but too fatal to many. It Was particularly to he lamented that a British soldier should do so ; and he would be happy to give every 'assistance in his power to wards recalling them to a sense of their allegiance, and the duty they owed their country. He would, however, recommend Captain lientinck, in the first instance, to make au immediate application to Captain Richball, of the Thames Police, upon the subject." [The Times.] An express, which left Paris on Saturday after noon, rrached London yesterday morning. The ri per Cents. at the close of that day were quoted at 63. .50. being, it was asserted, an improvement of one per cent. on the pi ices of the preceding day. Tie rate of exchange, however, was ex. cecdingly low, having sunk to 23. 10. As the end of the mouth is fast approaching, the period %viten the speculators of the Paris market usual ly make up their accounts, much anxiety is manifested as to the manner in which they rutty then be able to close their concerns. We bt it e it, however, to the honour of the French market, that those immoral and gambling con tiacts, called time-bargains, are much more ri gorously guarded against than here in England. The French Funds, however, have fallen even' during the month nearly 7 per cent.; and this is a variation which, with us at least, could not but give rise to some alarming deficiencies. French stock was in some demand yesterday in the City, and sold freely at a price of 64 : the rate of ex change is better here than at Paris, being quoted at 23. 45. for money. FOR THE SUN. mi,„ irß7.ll l 44 'H ,,r E t Bc r 1 4 BL r E i . lt . • , . .. i I h ope itliti tmuso' t 1 t ers I ' am doink no mod. than exerc sin t i again ill Silbx vriVilege:w4. biii be himself en ,e joys under your s‘ 0u"?,,-hich concedes to us both .. 4 il l - an opportunity-expreising our respective opi nions. You have already vouched for his being A worthy man, yet I am free to confess I think him a very inconsistent writer. He has expa tiated much on the gentlemanly manner in which a controversy should be conducted, yet ,whether casting in his opponents' teeth, that '' Chris tianity is ever and anon in their mouths but little in their hearts, and less in their practice," styling them "half-witted followers of a Methodist Preacher," dwelling,on " the splenetic envy of a rival in his holy fervours," and denominating him a " sprig of the church," and elsewhere, I think, " a monk," exactly tallies in beauty of practice with the beauty of his theory, I leave to others to determine... The subject in dispute is one of grave import i ance, but it is one on which opinion may vary. STACKHOUSE animadverts upon the Catholics for their faith in the . :POPE ; but he -would fain plant iNlr. BELLAMY in the chair of infallibility, and expect all Protestants to bow to his deCISIOH. STACKHOUSE may continue to- assert, and Air. BELLAMY may continue I'o itna- give, that " truths divine come mended from his pen," but something superior to the specimens of the of e, and more convincing than the argil , ments . of the other, is yet wanting to compel all men to coincide . in that opinion. To bring my idea of STACKHOUSE'S inconsistency to bear upon tire subject itself, let us see what he says-;--" we have been misled by a volume of errors, corrup tions, and legends, for our rule of faith, and are now almost assured, that we have been reading a work of blunderers, rather than of those men who wrote no more than what was revealed to them, insomuch, that what we have held to be unex ceptionably sacred, is little more than profane, and may he called the composition of the Trans !mars, and not of Moses and the Prophets."— Bravo ! Mr. STACKI-10diE ! to adopt his own styl e , Bravo !—R preity plain declaration this of the un worthiness of the Bible ; but concerning which he nevertheless tells a Christian, that " if he has only read the New Testament, and has neglected the Old, 'he will improve himself by turning to it often ! !"—is not this something like " consecrat ing error," though I do not think STaclusousti means to make his Tyro " appear like a tool." Again, STACKHOUSE tells us, " the original was written in Hebrew only, but Mr. BELLAMY'S new Translation of it is nearer verbally, and literally, than the old one," and that " Mr. BELLAMY bringing forth such a one as can be read wit pleasure and reliance, imperfect as it may be i, the original Hebrew, of which none can judge."— Then how dues Mr. BELLAMY judge ot must in STACKUOUSE'S contemplation be a Pro phet ; for STACKHOUSE says, " happily we are now rescued by Mr. BELLAMY from deception, by his giving us the truth ot the Almighty, as it flow ed in his divine mission to his servants." Grant this, and there is no occasion to refine,—where exists the necessity or the authority to refine the truth of the :11mig,hty ?—Yet STACKIIOUSE is par ticulatly solicitous to impress upon us that ►Mr. BULLAMY'S is a relined Translation of the Holy Volume. Does not this slim that there is "a stum bling-block of our iniquities which must sometimes be set before our eyes," and that this stumbling block exists in the Bible, however Mr. BELLAMY may endeavour to chip and so►notii it away ? The Bible is intended for tl►e closet as well as the reading-desk; and of this our church is so well aware, that certain portions of it ar•e never read publicly at all, yet their authenticity is not theist by compromised'. The Bible is the foundation of our faith, but we •re nut at all times to lay the foundation open, in order to judge of the super structure—it is not necessary, I say, it is not de corous, on many occasions, to give " chapter and verse." From the Bible and the New 'Fes lament together, may be drawn out a Christian Essay, as unexceptionable in language as beau tiful in spirit, yet at the same time manifestly evincing the source from whence it apt logs. But when we give the Bible itself, let us consider that we are as it were stewards of its mysteries, and tl►at it is required of stewards that they be found faithful, and there are, Sir, amongst your Cor respondents, those, who, for any thing that ap pears to the contrary, knowing as much at least of the subject as Mr. BELLAMY, have informed us, that the present Translatiou of• tl►e Bible is eu►i nently faithful. The Bible and the New Testament harmonize together, but let it not be forgotten bow much of both is histuriectl—and 1 think, con sidering► the nature of the transactions which it has sometimes occasion to detail, the Bible is as delicate in its language as the subject will allow ; much more so than are many profane I►istorians treating on similar mutters. We might indeed have been merely told that Sodom and, Go morrah were destroyed by fire front heaven, be cause they committed deadly sin—and we might also have been told that Cain was accursed of God because lie committed a deadly sin•—but the evil propensities of fallen man required more express definition to deter bins front crime, that he might start with horror front the bare idea of its com mission ; and that lie might not be left to " go a whoring with his own inventions," in order tf► discover what «•as the deadly sin which over wl►eln►ed tl►e cities of the plain. This knowledge the Bible presents to us ; but it does not oleic- fore give us liberty to expatiate upon these sub jects. ‘Ve are commanded to abstain From sin ; but St. Paul was well aware that the com muna must sometimes be enforced by more par ticularity of expression; yet all tend; to prove bow necessary, how indispensably necessary, it We received last night the Paris Papers of Fri day last. That being Christmas Day, the Offices of the Journals • were shut, and none were pub lished on Saturday. We have, in consequence, no arrival of Papers this morning. The follow ing are extracts " PARIS, DEC 25.—The King yesterday heard mass in his apartments. " On the Duke de Bourbon's return on Wed• nesday evening from the chase near Chantilly, his carriage broke down near his residence, by which his Royal Highness is much wounded in the shoulder, but it is hoped the accident will not pro duce any serious consequences. " In the Chamber of Deputies the Bureaux ap pointed a Committee for the examination of the projet respecting the collection of six twelfths of the taxes, consisting of the following Members : M M. Beugnot (Rapporteur), Breton, the Duke de Gaete, the Count de Hautefeuille, the Baron Delessert, Ganilli , Stendel and Lormand. " The Diet of Frankfort has adjourned its Sittings, which will not be resumed till the 20th January. is that men should plant a guard in the recesses lips, their beat ts, and a centinel at the door of their to preserve them from the deceits of th - 0:01rI, the flesh, and the devil. The present co, tr6iPirsy has chiainly- f helped to fix in , my min, • aft lok since, entertained there, that. the ;venerable Society for promoting Christian Know -14 0 -pursues th e p re f era bl e p l an,. b y accompany . mg . its distrihntion of the Bible with hints-, to- Wards the right ..reading Of it—and giving every credit to STACKHOUSE and to Mr. BELLAMY for propriety of intention, I still cannot but think that they have not made good their case, and that their conclusions are not incontrovertible.— Let M. BELLAmv's translation be ever so pure, he himself has told us, and STACKHOUSE has rei terated the assertion, that it is refined by hint : thus leaving us unable to know what parts of it to attribute to Mr. BELLAMY, and what to MOSES and the Prophets. Mr. BELLAMY'S Trans lation may he of great service as a scholastic trea tise, but abilities more powerful, and confirma tion more potent, than STACKHOUSE has yetdis played, must try it in the balance before it wil be entitled to be received as an "Authorized e'er don" of the Holy Scriptures. Yours respectfully, THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DRU RY- LA Biron, Mr.ll-1. Kernble ; Isabella, Mrs. W. West. After which (d time), Harlequin and the Dandy Club. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—,Jane Shore. Lord Hastings, Mr. Young; Jane Shure, Miss O'Neill. After which (itiine), Harlequin Munchausen. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Oui Correspondent IGNOT: s, on a reference to THE SUN of the 23d inst. will see that we have already inserted the article on EMI dRATION which he mentions, and - which first Appea'red in an Irish Journal. We are always happy in attending to his hints as well as in receiving his favours. PRICE 01 I'HIS DAY AT r 3 per Cent. lied. 77 iii 3 per Cent Btii 4 per Cents. 94 J Bauk L. Ann -19 15-16ths 20 F STOCKS 'wELvv.. o'claicK. India Bonds .7 's. 771. pr, Exch. Bills, 2d 10s. Ws. pr. Ditto Commercial.— . 7s. dis. Cons, fur AcC0unt......764ii MAILS. ARRIVEA-1 Dublin, I Guernsey and Jersey, s Hamburg'', I France. llux—t2 Waterford, 2 Sweden. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO•MORROW. Morning, 32 witintes after 4. 1 Evenihg, 57 minutes after 4. THE SUN. MEM QUIS' TUCERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1818. FIVE PER CENTS. 'Thursday... 63 f. -- c. DEFERRED STOCK Of the 22d Nlarch, 1817, 75 f. 75 c, 92d Sept. 1817, 921 March, ISI S, 7l f. 75 c, 22d Sept. 1z:18, EXCILINGP. ON LONDON. One aluutli 23 f. 30 c. Tbree Mouths . .23 f. lu c. " VIENNA, DEC. 14 --The Emperor and Em press of Austria have fixed the 10th of February for their departure for Ibily ; they proceed first to Venice to pass a part of the Carnival, and con tinue their journey to Rome by the way of Flo rence, to celebrate the Holy Week and the Fes tival of Easter. Their Imperial Majesties will en probably visit Naples. Alter their retort' they will proceed to Prague, where the Empress will be crwened as Queen of Bohemia. This so lemnity will be followed by the celebration of the marriage of the Archduchess Caroline with the eldest son of Prince Maximilian of Saxony, the presumptive heir to the Throne of Saxony. It is again reported that the Empress will shortly atter wards be crowned Queen of Hungary. " The Emperor of Russia intends to quit this capital the 21st inst. His Imperial Majesty will sleep on the 22d at Brunn. RASTADT, DEC. 19.—The new Grand Duke of Baden professes the most liberal principles. " IRUN, DEC. S.—Within these few days a onmber of Foreign Journals have been seized on the frontiers, ‘1:11 ch it was attempted to intro duce into Spain, notwithstanding the severe pro hibition of the Government. These Jourto lll amongst which is a series of The Morning Chra nide, have been sent to Madrid. The precav I tions are redoubled at all the Custom-houses, to prevent Newspapers from entering the Kingdom' A package of brochures, written in the Span° language, and printed at,Londott, has also been seized.' IVe have just beard what is, perhaps,lly no means calculated to excite surprize, that intel(i." gence was received in town this day, importing! that there had been nearly a total change in'tbe French Ministry, suddenly and unexpectedly et' leered, with hardly a single exception. . ther this event arises from the predortii!: nance of,Jacobinical craft, or the elevation of the ULTRAS, we know not, but after the King's recent Speeches, the congratulatory Answers from tb! Chambers, and the apparent harmony in the Go' vernment, such a rapid change is rather wonderful , even in the Court of France. By a private Letter which a friend has just re' ceived from Spain, we learn, that (there is reallf not so much danger of a Revolution in that coup' try as seems to have been apprehended, at least not of the democratical kind. It is said, that Cummus the Mb has manifested a strong clination to be restored to the Throne, and had actually made preparations to join the Congress of Potentates at Aix-la-Chapelle, in order to solicit their aid to effect his full and speedy restoration. It is said he had aut h orized his friends to signify, that if he should be Ode to resume the Crown, be would immediately put an end to a war calculated o bring m i sery and ruin upon the Country, With' out any chance of accomplishing the purpose in view,—and that be had signified his po. sitive intention to acknowledge the independence of the revolted Colonies, and, by amicable nego' ciations, to secure as early as possible a Commer,. cial intercourse with them, and, indeed, to render it efelusively in favour of Old Spain, in return for so great a boon. It is added, that some pre tended friends of FERDINAND, who wish for the restoration of his father, have insidiously urge(' him to persevere in hostilities against the Colo' vies, in order to augment the embarrassments of the Country, and to increase the disgust of the People. The deposed King hitt] declared the- Prince of Peace,. as he was styled, shall never pollute the soil of "Spain any more, that he will yield to the enlightened spirit of the times, hi removing every obstacle to the happiness of the People and the improvement of the Government, according to the Counsels of the wisest States.. men that the Country affords, and who are most likely to possess the confidence of the People. It is thought that these measures in favour of CHARses have been some time in agitation, and ar e too well digested and too powerfully supported 10 FERDINAND to be able to resist them; and, as we said yesterday, on the information of a Corre" spondent in Paris, that he was on the eve of quitting the Country, and seeking a shelter in France, if he had not actually departed. Such a new order of things in Spain would give vigour to the country, and enable it to resume its rank among the Nations. It would likewise be materially beneficial to the world in general, in putting a stop to the miseries of war, and producing that commercial intercourse• which would tel to . give spirit, strength, and dignity ►o the Kingdotris as well as security to the Tltro►►e. Whitehall, 22d December, 1$ have had the honour.to lay before his Royal MO . 'less the Prince Regent, the very dutiful and loyal Address of the Nobility; Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the Coital of Worcester, expressing their affectionate condolence on the lamented Death of her late Majesty the Queen ; and I bar'• to acquaint you, that his Royal Highness received the saws n the most gracious manner I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble Servant, SIDMOUTIL The High Sheriff of the County of Worcester, Hallow Park. AABON GRAHAM, Eso. —The remains of tbl9 estimable Gentleman and valuable Servant of the Public, were yes:eiday removed from his house. in Great Queen -street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Rod deposited in a vault under t , e middle Isle of St. George's church, Bloomsbury. lie was attended to the grave by his two sons and several of his old friends, who had long known his worth. Th e Itineial was well calculated to manifest the affec.• tion and respect of his family. The hearse vv° drawn by six horses, and four mourning coaches! drawn by four horses each, followed. The carriage of --I - licKes, Esq. son-in-law of the deceased , closed the mournful proces , ion, that Gentleman himself being unavoidably absent, and At a great distance front town. The late Air. GRAHAM. f" /' filled all the duties of every station assigned t° hint with zeal, diligence, and ability, tar be" yowl the usual standard ; and if th e aven ues to power and profit were more open to talents and integrity, and less appropriated to the patronage of interest, partiality and kindred, he might have risen to a sittnition more beneficial to himself and his country. William Key, convicted of perjury at the last Middlesex Sessions, respecting the well-known case of Mr. Coox E, stood in the pillory this moo' tog, in Cove.zit•Gerrien. ri ll 4). ttlilit Scot vorti their *lra, in I v F e I SC ?rein terio bary Di and' arrivi iligs that t oti lii liitr j furl lwer i gall, Stzil datm aan, sew Find i 3 a last ft cam tiler Etir, CCM 01011 bltre feret prod lints *nee or I right aura